HAHN Digital

Enhancing Operational Technology

HAHN Digital is the expert for digitalization in manufacturing companies. With integrated, smart solutions HAHN Digital helps clients to work faster, more efficient and more flexible. The combined use of automation, robotics and digitalization benefits along with in-depth data analyses helps companies master the challenges of modern production in a smart factory. For this, HAHN Digital brings the agile, goal-oriented working methods of a startup and the long-standing experience of the HAHN Group together. Based on continuous updates and improvements of solutions, HAHN Digital is a long-term business partner with a service-oriented approach for digital change.

EVE Suite – Innovative Solutions

With EVE Suite, HAHN Digital provides a portfolio of innovative solutions that put the digital transformation of tomorrow’s Smart Factory into practice. Upon the integration of EVE Suite services into their processes, users can noticeably increase their output regarding the most important factors: Productivity, Efficiency, Quality and Flexibility.

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EVE Vision

With the EVE Vision product line, HAHN Digital offers a solution for the challenges of the manual visual inspection: Automated visual inspection with an automatic end-of-line tester. The advanced machine vision algorithms of EVE Vision take error proofing to an unprecedented level.

The advantages of EVE Vision:

Excellent error proofing as a result of machine learning and computer vision algorithms.
Quick operational readiness with intuitive control and automated motion planning.
Saving of resources and improved results via automated quality control and end-of-line testing.

Ready to use within a few hours only

EVE Vision can be activated within just a few hours. Its intuitive control enables easy operation. Employees do not require any previous experience with software programming, camera or robot technology. Models of products that are subject to computer-vision testing are generated based on surface scans and CAD data. Afterwards, the software takes over motion and image planning automatically. After a few hours, EVE Vision starts with the automated product testing. With every end-of-line testing, the machine learning algorithms will improve with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). The accompanying automation of quality control can bring substantial savings in resources to companies. The improved testing quality renders elaborate manual visual inspection unnecessary.

Higher product quality through machine vision

With the aid of special computer vision technology, EVE Vision scans and identifies surfaces, labels, text, barcodes, bolts, plugs, and ports. The machine vision detectors are specialized on various cases of application and are pre-equipped with several thousand reference images. This ensures a high detection rate starting with the very first inspected part that even identifies small details like screw-depth or the condition of bolt heads. Furthermore, individual detectors can be developed.

Process optimization through automatic end-of-line testing

As a complete solution for end-of-line testing, EVE Vision significantly reduces the company’s initial effort with inspecting products. Employees can autonomously expand, change, or adjust the inspection plan, which makes the process much faster, more economical, and more flexible.

EVE Analytics

With EVE Analytics, customers receive a monitoring solution for their production facilities – via PC, smart phone, or tablet – and can enhance the output of their equipment with real-time responses.

The advantages of EVE Analytics:

Reduction of downtime for machinery and equipment via Predictive Maintenance
Enabling fast responses based on targeted real-time notifications and site-independent status updates
Efficient monitoring of production facilities and processes with data analyses and performance-based dashboards based on big data algorithms
High data security with encrypted communication

Dashboards for better monitoring of production facilities

The flexible dashboards, which provide cross-location and cross-platform visualization, can be created easily and for users with various access rights. This way, the performance-based overview of the connected equipment and production facilities is in line with the demands. Employees receive notifications based on big data and error reports relevant to their area of responsibility.

Data analysis enables predictive analytics

EVE Analytics performs an automatic data analysis regarding the interdependencies and deviations from the optimal settings. The resulting findings are helpful for diagnostics and error prediction and ensure the constant increase in output of the equipment via predictive analytics.

High data security through on premise solutions

The communication between the platform and the equipment is encrypted and takes place on premise if required, so that EVE Analytics provides extreme data security for companies.

EVE Support

The combination of augmented reality (AR) and innovative software enables a new, efficient communication solution: EVE Support guarantees immediate fault analysis and correction for production systems. Employees on site are guided by experienced technicians with the help of remote maintenance glasses and can therefore react particularly quickly to changes. Thanks to its location-independent use, EVE Support is particularly resource-saving and allows the documentation of operations so that solution approaches can also be reproduced in the future.

The advantages of EVE Support:

Reduction of downtime with immediate support via augmented reality
Shorter error analysis and examination times with guided problem solution for any employee
Real-time fact finding with image transmission, visual display of documents, and integrated translation of text instructions
Secure application in a machine environment with remote maintenance glasses (smart glasses) that allow hands-free operation
Resource-saving with cross-site and location-independent application
Reproducibility of solution approaches and efficient employee training with multiple use of support recordings and video documentation

Reducing downtime through fast trouble shooting

With video calls via remote maintenance glasses (smart glasses), EVE Support provides a personal, location-independent and resource-saving real-time support. The employees on-site can fix any issues immediately or send specialists to the site if required. This procedure guarantees short response times, minimizes error analysis and examination times and thus reduces any downtimes.

Maintain perspective with smart glasses

The key advantage of using remote maintenance glasses is obvious: the support employee sees exactly what the on-site employee sees. Even a layperson will obtain a viable customized instruction in the form of visual gestures, live feedback and data overlays. By using augmented reality technology, employees on-site have their hands free and their surroundings in sight, which makes EVE Support especially safe when working with mechanical equipment.

Effective training through service documentation

Support services are documented by video recordings for full traceability. Thereby, service engineers can be trained more efficiently, and solution approaches can be reproduced more easily in the future.

EVE Protect

With EVE Protect, HAHN Digital offers a customized cyber security portfolio for manufacturing companies with industry-leading monitoring solutions. These solutions help companies manage their operational technology (OT) cyber security regarding detection, response, prediction, and prevention.

By connecting their production equipment and OT devices, manufacturing companies bring their IT and OT systems closer together. This connection is the first step towards realizing many valuable use cases in digital transformation. Nonetheless, entering the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is accompanied by new cyber security threats. Unauthorized access to manufacturing networks, hacked production equipment, or read out data are only some of the examples that can lead to serious damage.

Assessment and monitoring of cyber security for OT equipment

EVE Protect provides automatic and continuous analyses and assessment of OT and IoT equipment’s firmware. This solution system is based on the combination of two products of our partner company Cybellum: Cybellum V-Ray and Cybellum V-Monitor.

Manufacturing companies often integrate third party OT equipment to their facilities, their (local) IIoT network or even their products. However, insights to the providers’ software architecture are rarely provided. Without access to the source code of the built-in components, companies have to rely on the cyber security competencies of their providers. Therefore, it is difficult to run a comprehensive risk assessment.

Previous monitoring solutions like the manual verification and assessment of each component are not scalable in times of increasing networking and are merely a snapshot in the highly volatile environment of cyber security. If a device was secure before its integration into the equipment, new weak points or attack techniques can pose a threat to it afterwards. Only through the constant live monitoring of OT security, every deployed component can be protected from new threats. Machine learning helps the software to improve itself with every newly discovered or disclosed weak point. EVE Protect enables companies to act early on these issues instead of merely reacting to them.

Cybellum solutions provide the following joint advantages:

No integration effort and no device risk with agent-less approach – no code is being installed on the device
Infinite scaling, since the platform can scan and process all kinds of devices
Low investment of resources and no safety experts required due to automatic end-to-end process
High data security due to local offline supply – no data will leave the company

Cybellum V-Ray™

Cybellum V-RayTM offers complete transparency and risk assessment at the time of the integration phase based on an automated monitoring for weak point identification.

The monitoring software reconstructs and scans the OT/IIoT devices’ firmware for security weak points and threats, it imitates the approach of attackers, and provides a complete overview of the scanned device. This makes it possible to assess the risks of the new devices, to fix any issues and to safely integrate and release the device in the company.

The core competencies of Cybellum V-RayTM

Increasing cyber security by extensive review of a device’s firmware before its integration
Very wide range of application even with closed firmware, because no access to source code is required

Cybellum V-Monitor™

Cybellum V-MonitorTM constantly monitors every scanned device for new weaknesses and threats from public and private sources. The monitoring software is integrated to the inventory management system: the platform automatically monitors new weak points and matches new cyber security risks with the available data from the devices. As soon as a security risk that needs attention occurs, Cybellum V-MonitorTM alerts the persons responsible.

The core competencies of Cybellum V-MonitorTM:

Guarantees high cyber security with constant monitoring and automated patching of firmware
No network load with software backend device imitation
Rapid response to identified security gaps by means of constant analysis and monitoring as well as active alerts in case of security alterations

Digital Consulting

HAHN Digital Consulting guides manufacturing companies through their digital transformation.

In order to make companies faster, more flexible, and more efficient, HAHN Digital accompanies the planning, conception, and implementation of digital transformation in manufacturing companies. This puts customers in the position to master increasing competitive pressure as well as increasing demands on quality, delivery times, customer focus, and innovation.

In the context of these consulting services, three successful elements meet at HAHN Digital:

The use of established frameworks for the systematic support of digital transformation such as the acatech Industry 4.0 Index or RAMI 4.0.
State-of-the-art know-how of trends and developments in the area of operational technology (OT)
More than 30 years of experience with automation and industrial robotics in the HAHN Group

Consulting Services

The support of digital transformation in manufacturing (industry 4.0) requires organizational changes on several levels. Companies can only benefit from digitalization potentials of technological progress when they take a critical look at their resources, information systems, their organization, and their corporate culture first. This is where HAHN Digital starts accompanying companies – from the initial consideration to the realization and recommended actions for setting up a smart factory.

During this process, HAHN Digital Consulting responds to any relevant questions that may arise for manufacturing companies such as:

In which areas is the implementation of digital solutions for automated information retrieval or improved communication beneficial and profitable?
Which data are relevant and how can they be assessed for a specific application?
Which organizational and procedural shifts have to be implemented in order to achieve the maximum benefit of a new technological solution?

HAHN Digital Consulting provides manufacturing companies with the following comprehensive services:

Analysis of potentials and prioritization of application fields for digital solutions in manufacturing
Realization of quick proof of concepts or pilot projects in order to make potentials of success for data-based workflows tangible.
Planning of an optimized OT architecture for data use and connection to the IT world of operational information systems
Management of the extensive realization process in manufacturing
Individual support

Digital Readiness Quickcheck

HAHN Digital performs a Digital Readiness Quick Check for customers. Digitalization potentials – also referred to as digital maturity – of certain processes or products is assessed on the basis of a profound analysis. Following models like the acatech Industry 4.0 Maturity Index and VDMA Industry 4.0 Readiness Check, a methodical procedure is applied to identify customized solution approaches to process digitalization.

The status quo analysis of the examined processes and products is summarized in a compact result report. This document shows the required steps including the according prioritization that can lead to a systematic increase in maturity.

Quick Proof of Concepts

Proof of concept projects are a method of making digital transformation potentials of a company tangible within a very short time. Goals and applications of the respective proof of concepts are determined in cooperation with the customer. HAHN Digital develops solutions for the according test application and its technical requirements for a potential rollout based on the customer’s data and the customer’s equipment and products.

By virtue of using HAHN Digital’s own products such as EVE Suite, projects in the fields of analytics, visual inspection, remote maintenance support and product OT security can be realized particularly time efficiently. For anything beyond these thematic areas, HAHN Digital analyses state-of-the-art solution providers matching the individual application and manages the performance of the pilot project.

Future Concepts for Operational Technology

HAHN Digital develops concepts for the future architecture of OT systems on the shop floor and the connection to operational information systems in close cooperation with manufacturing companies. The networking of these systems enables a data-based and constant improvement that aims at high flexibility of internal processes and a high response capability for unscheduled events.

By using customized target images, HAHN Digital creates a project plan to translate the overall concept which consists of several technical concepts for the future OT architecture and delivers a comprehensive basis for the implementation plan and investment calculation.

Multi Project and Program Management in Digital Transformation

With a detailed multi project or program management respectively, HAHN Digital controls the various projects in the digital transformation of the customer’s business. This procedure ensures the ideal achievement of project objectives in terms of time, budget, and content.

The agile and classic project management methods of the program management ensure that important accompanying steps for the transformation success are initiated and realized. These steps include internal change communication and change marketing measures as well as continuous employee trainings for organizational transitions.

As a result, the integration of digital solutions into a company is optimized by process transitions and employee training. The company can identify new potentials and realize them to its day-to-day operations.

Individual Projects

Whether you have just started your journey, or you are already halfway in the middle and you are missing the last components for a successful implementation: HAHN Digital consults and supports you with every aspect of your operational technology and your digital transformation.

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Felix Bott

Product Manager

Phone: +49 69 42 72 60 224

E-Mail: f.bott@hahnautomation.com